Outdoor cooking-crane.



E. W. WALL.

OUTDOOR COOKING CRANE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1912.

1,071,834, Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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E. W. WALL.

OUTDOOR COOKING CRANE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1912.

1,071,834. Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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OUTDOOR COOKING-CRANE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed September 26, 1912. Serial No. 722,496.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELLIS W. WALL, citizen of the United States, residing at Medford, in the county of Jackson and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and use- .ful Improvements in Outdoor Cooking- Cranes, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improvements in outdoor cooking cranes, the object of the invention being the provision of a cooking device which is constructed in a simple and convenient, demountable and collapsible manner that particularly adapts it for packing into isolated mountainous regions. The device is also capable of being converted into a support for a table, so that after the cooking is finished, a table deck may be properly affixed to the supporting crane, thus presenting a table with an ample area.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of invention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the crane, showing one of the cooking grates in full lines and others in dotted lines, and shelf sup ports detached. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the underside of the supporting shelf for the table. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the crane, showing the cooking grates in place and also the table supporting shelf in place. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the table. Fig. 5 is a perspective view illust 'ating the entire kit packed for transportation. Fig. (3 is a plan view of the foldable stove pipe. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the warming shelf which also serves to hold the stove pipe or stack to the crane. Fig. 8 illustrates the stove pipe or stack secured to the crane, the pur pose of the warming shelf being also illustrated.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention I utilize the four legs 1, 2. 3, 4, which are attached to the center ring 5 by bolts (3. The legs are preferably of wrought or malleable iron or they may be of pressed steel, and are approximately 32 long. About one foot from the bottom each leg is twisted, as illustrated, and the upper end of each leg is perforated to acconunodate the bolt 6 which is passed through the perforated ears or brackets 7 attached to the ring 5. The attachment of the legs to the ring in this manner permits the four legs to be folded inwardly, as will be understood.

There aretwo sockets, designated as 8 and 21 secured at diametr' :ally opposite points on the periphery of the ring 5, and these sockets are adapted to receive the bent ends of the respective brackets or arms 17 and 18, as supports for the table when in use.

At a point just above the twist in each of the legs of the crane they are perforated to receive the pins 12, 13, 14, 1:") and these pins are intended to aid in supporting the series of cooking grates 1(3, 19, and 20, the first mentioned of which only is shown in full lines, Each of the grates is slotted as at 16 in order that the grates may be located in the position indicated in Fig. 3 wherein the grates are illustrated as resting on the pins and the slots 16, which are located in each grate at right angles to each other, are slipped over the adjoining pair of legs, as for instance 3 and 4. In this manner the cooking grates are securely and firmly held to the legs of the crane.

In Figs. 6, 7, and 8 the application of the stove pipe or stack is illustrated. The stove pipe 4:4 as illustrated is made of sections, hinged together, the two end sections being secured by means of the rod 46. In applying the stack, it is placed over the ring 5 with the slots 44 fitting down over the legs of the crane, the sectional, foldable warming shelf 45 is then slipped down over the stack and pressed down so that it clamps the lower end of the stack about the four legs of the crane, thus forming a rigid, but dclnountable cmnnection between the crane and stack, and also providing a convenient warming shelf.

It will be understood of course that the fire is to be built and kindled under the center of the crane, and with the cooking grates, warming shelf, and stack in place, the meal may be prepared conveniently and quickly. The grates and warming shelf serve the purpose of supporting the receptacles in which the meal is being prepared. After the meal is cooked, and after a snflicient time has elapsed to permit cooling, the grates, warming shelf and stack are dismounted, and the crane lifted from the fire.

When sufficiently cool to permit it, the table arms 17 and 18 are inserted into the sockets 8 and 21, and the tablemay then be placed in position.

The table includes a center-section 24 to the underside of which is attached a metallic ring 22, by means of the brackets 23 and 41. These brackets also form lugs adapted to seat in the sockets 9 and 10 at the inner side of the ring 5. In attaching the table to the' crane, the ring 22 is inserted within the ring 5, with the lugs 23 and 41 fitting in their respective sockets, and the catches 42 and 43 at the ends of the section 24 lock over the ends of the arms 18 and 17 respectively.

The table deck in addition to the central section 24 comprises wooden strips 27 to inclusive, and these strips together with the baking, etc.

It will be noted that all the parts are foldable into small compass, so that after the parts are dismounted and detached, the crane legs may be folded together, thesectional stack and warming shelf folded up, and then these parts may be wrapped with the jointed table deck, and after being tied packing as crane.

2. The combination with a crane comprising a ring and legs pivoted thereto, of a sectional, hinged stack provided with slots at the hinge joints and fitted upon said legs, and a sectional, hinged warming shelf, open at the center and clamped over said stack.

3. The combination with acrane comprising a ring and legs pivoted thereto, of a foldable stack provided with slots fitted upon said legs, and a series of slotted cooking grates supported on said legs below the stack. 7

4. The combination with a crane comprising a ring and pivoted legs, of a foldable stack, a warming shelf clamping said stack to the crane, and a series of cooking grates supported on said legs below the stack.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EVERETT R. WALL, GEORGE W. FULLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

